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A NEW PAGE - with an
example Header Design Advice letter from the Header Design Service we offer is
now available. Lots of header design discussion in a very different
format!

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Lots still left to do to get everything transferred from the
old website to this one.

Please be patient when things don't make sense or
don't work correctly as many have told us that they wanted us to get this
website back up and running even if it wasn't perfect.

ABOUT US - a brief history of HEADERS BY "ED", INC.

Condensing the business's history considerably, the first set of HEADERS BY "ED" was built on the very car at the top of this page, by me, in 1962 when I was approaching my 21st birthday.

The first few years of the business involved doing "pure" custom header work (vehicles were brought into the shop and I built headers on them).

Due to problems with local dealers not willing to invest in header parts inventory, two years later, in 1964, I became a distributor (and reseller) of various header parts. As the years passed, I started making many of the parts I previously bought from others and also worked with outside suppliers to make parts to my specifications and, in the process, developed many new and, I believe, better parts based on my experiences gained not only by DESIGNING and BUILDING BETTER headers but also by helping others build their own BETTER headers.

In 1966 I decided to get away from doing pure custom header work and designed the first set of HEADERS BY "ED" - for the '62-'67 Small Block Nova - where I built header jigs off the finished headers so that I could make and ship headers to others elsewhere. That change of direction in the business also initiated magazine advertising (which continued through 2001 when the decision was made to just rely on customer referrals and web related sales).

In 1974 I started to offer Vertical Exit HEADERS BY "ED" for pullers, mudracers, etc.

Along the way, I also had started deepening oil pans for local racers and even purchased a distributor machine and recurved a lot of distributors for local customers too. At one point HEADERS BY "ED" even offered a complete cylinder head service!